[W]here the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
– 2 Corinthians 3:17
Writing as I am on this day, July 3, 2022, it’s hard for my thoughts not to turn to Independence Day as Americans celebrate the 246th anniversary of the founding of the American nation.
I don’t remember a time when Independence Day was not one of my favorite days on the calendar. Growing up in the 1970s, I recall the focus on the Bicentennial celebrations in 1976. I was ten years old at the time. Not old enough to understand or appreciate the full significance of the Declaration of Independence, the Revolutionary War, and the Constitution, but old enough to realize that the acts and the words of the founding fathers had created a new nation committed to the protection of individual liberty to an extent never before accomplished.
One lesson about the formation of the United States that I did not learn until years later was just how much it depended upon the Protestant Reformation kicked off by Martin Luther over 250 years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
This idea – the notion that the United States and the history of limited government and economic liberty historically, if not presently, enjoyed by its citizens is a by-product of the Reformation – would likely come as a surprise to many Americans today, even those who attend churches that claim to be Reformed.
Lux Lucet 
God has truly blessed our nation as the fruit of the Reformation that exalted Christ and His word as the final arbiter of truth. Today, however, America is in great decline because of the success of Rome’s counter reformation spearheaded by the Jesuits turning its people away from the truth of scripture and Christ’s victory at the cross. The vast majority of Americans believe in the false science taught in government schools (and sadly, in falsely-called evangelical churches) and the cultural universalism of Babylonian religion. Our empire’s is dead and buried unless we are granted repentance like the Nineveh of old.